title: [Tuberculous colitis - diagnostic and therapeutic aspects (author's transl)].
abstract: Secondary tuberculous enterocolitis is a rare disease since tuberculostatic drugs have been introduced. Leading symptoms are abdominal pain, loss of weight and diarrhoea. Clinical symptoms, laboratory tests, x-ray, and endoscopic findings may lead to the erroneous diagnosis of colon carcinoma. Coloscopy including biopsy may lead the path to the correct diagnosis; they may in some cases, however, not be conclusive. Surgery is not necessarily mandatory as treatment; drug treatment alone may cause complete healing of intestinal tuberculosis, as a case reported here shows.
mesh_terms: D000196:Actinomycosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D000328:Adult; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003106:Colon / Q000601:surgery; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D003113:Colonoscopy; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014385:Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents
vernacular_title: Colitis tuberculosa - diagnostische und therapeutische Aspekte.